LECTURES ON THE CAUSES AND TREATMENT OF ULCERS OF THE LOWER EXTREMITY. AT THEDELIVERED LONDON HOSPITAL, DURING THE SUMMER OF 1848. BY GEOKGE F.E.C.S.CRITCHETT, ESQ., SURGEON TO THE ROYAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC ASSISTANT SURGEONHOSPITAL; TO THE LONDON AND LECTURER ON PRACTICALHOSPITAL; ANATOMY, ETC. ETC. ,(, LONDON: JOHN PRINCES SOHO.CHURCHILL, STREET, MDCCCXLIX. THETO LONDONPUPILS OF THE HOSPITAL, WHOSE ZEALOUS INDUSTRY THEIRSUGGESTED AND REWARDED COMPILATION, THESE LECTURES BY THEIR SINCERE .FRIEND, THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. THE author of the which haveLectures,following " in the of The feelsLancet,"already appeared pages it due to the Profession to offer some reasons for re- in a form.them collected There exists suchpublishing a in Medical that it behoves eachplethora Literature, new commentator Nature's morbid if heupon operations, would to obtain attention from hisexpect any profes- sional to one of :three hebrethren, accomplish objects must either new and foundedpropound original views, on or he must collect the ofinduction,legitimate rays that lie scattered over the fields of andlight pathology, them in a and useful formclear,present concentrated, ; he must resuscitate some oldor, lastly, principle, valuable in a of from someview, which,practical point accidental has inbeen allowed to slumbercause, neg- lect and oblivion it is in this latter and humbler ; capacity VI PREFACE.
LECTURES ON THE CAUSES AND TREATMENT OF ULCERS OF THE LOWER EXTREMITY. AT THEDELIVERED LONDON HOSPITAL, DURING THE SUMMER OF 1848. BY GEOKGE F.E.C.S.CRITCHETT, ESQ., SURGEON TO THE ROYAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC ASSISTANT SURGEONHOSPITAL; TO THE LONDON AND LECTURER ON PRACTICALHOSPITAL; ANATOMY, ETC. ETC. ,(, LONDON: JOHN PRINCES SOHO.CHURCHILL, STREET, MDCCCXLIX.THETO LONDONPUPILS OF THE HOSPITAL, WHOSE ZEALOUS INDUSTRY THEIRSUGGESTED AND REWARDED COMPILATION, THESE LECTURES BY THEIR SINCERE .FRIEND, THE AUTHOR.